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The only time I got suspended was early on, when I @named someone who had blocked me (after he lost an argument) just as I was replying. They said I was trying to circumvent his block or something. I think they must have changed that rule since then. These days I merely get unthreaded, semi-shadowed, and hidden below the "Click for more comments" line (Ever click that and have nothing else show up? that's a special level of naughty). So I pretty much don't post. I did break my personal 4000 tweet cap, but since they keep deleting stuff, I should be back down to that soon enough.

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One reason I rolled my own was that I wanted an updated platform for mee.nu as well. So it does a lot more than Twitter (though lacking some Twitter features I don't care about), and also more than Minx currently does.

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Everyone knows they only mean the right people are free to express themselves.
Pixy, are you trying to collect a whole set of bans?

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 31 2018 11:12 AM (h8yX6)

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I challenge the part where it says only your followers can see your tweets. I've see it where someone I was following, who was following me, could only see each others replies in the notifications, not in our timelines.

I loved when they added the reply count to your posts so you can see how many of them they are hiding from you.

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Meanwhile, recent comments are still absent in the "Comments" page, which kinda is a problem. I don't mind them absent from the blog's own fron page so much, but not being able to see them when administering the blog makes it impossible to moderate, if needed. Fortunately there weren't many spammers recently.

Tuesday, January 30

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You know. I can't help but think that the environment might be a factor.
Perhaps if two trainers got together and had duels in a koi pond with these things they could level it up to a point where summoning one did not amount to sadism.

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Phoronix reported some nasty slowdowns, around 20%, with MySQL, but closer to 0% slowdowns with a few games.
Ryzen CPUs (and maybe AMD processors in general) appear to not be affected.
This one looks nasty--it looks like speculatively-executed instructions don't get security checks. Someone on Twitter claims to have an exploit that lets them read kernel memory.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, January 04 2018 11:21 AM (h8yX6)

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It's what's known as a side-channel attack; you can't directly read kernel memory, but with a lot of trickery you can deduce some of the contents.

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The effects for most users will be minimal, but it can be pretty bad if you:

(a) Make heavy use of virtual machines
(b) Do heavy random I/O - databases are about the only thing that really does this.

Games are about 1% slower. Most desktop apps will be affected even less than that.

Cloud servers are badly affected. One multi-user game went offline when Amazon patch their servers because the load basically doubled for the same number of players.

I do know one developer who returned his brand new Intel 8700K system and replaced it with a cheaper AMD Ryzen 1700 machine (which is what I have) and got much better performance. (AMD isn't affected by Meltdown, and is partly safe from the other bug, Spectre.)